Books like The Well
Hester Harper, a lonely middle-aged farmer's daughter, takes in Katherine, an orphan girl, and driving home one night they hit something on the road and drop it down the well.
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All the Birds, Singing
Jake Whyte, a woman living alone on a sheep farm on an English island, finds her sheep being killed one by one, while her past in Australia closes in.
The White Earth
After his father's death, eight-year-old William goes to live with his great-uncle John on what is left of a great Queensland station, which the old man is obsessed with keeping from native title claims.
The Plains
A young filmmaker travels to the plains of inland Australia, where the landowners keep artists and scholars, and spends years failing to make his film.
Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St Valentine's Day 1900, a party of girls from Appleyard College goes on a picnic to Hanging Rock in Victoria, and three of them and a teacher vanish.
Foe
Susan Barton, cast away on an island with a man called Cruso and his tongueless servant Friday, comes back to England and asks the writer Daniel Foe to make her story into a book.
A General Theory of Oblivion
Ludo, an agoraphobic Portuguese woman in Luanda, bricks herself into her apartment on the eve of Angolan independence in 1975 and lives there alone for nearly thirty years.
Cosmos
Two young men renting rooms in a Polish country house find a hanged sparrow in the woods and become obsessed with a web of signs that may or may not mean anything.
Monkey Grip
Nora, a single mother living in shared houses in inner Melbourne in the 1970s, falls in love with Javo, a junkie actor who keeps disappearing.
The Pigeon
Jonathan Noel, a Parisian bank guard who has lived by strict routine for decades, finds a pigeon in the corridor outside his room, and his ordered existence begins to collapse.
Drylands
In a dying town in the Queensland outback, Janet Deakin, who runs the newsagency, writes a novel about her neighbours, and their stories of cruelty and leaving fill the book.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.
Treasure Island!!!
A directionless young woman who works at a pet-lending store reads Treasure Island and resolves to live by its core values of boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing, which goes badly for everyone around her, parrot included.